I will be putting my allowance aside every week until late June...

As mentioned on here a few times in recent weeks, Panini America is bringing Video Trading cards to the industry. Their first line of video cards will be randomly inserted in Totally Certified, available late June. Those cards will feature Kevin Durant, Blake Griffin, Kobe Bryant, and John Wall. To say that I have been hoping for a Kobe Bryant autograph in every pack of cards I have opened this season would be an understatement. It would be great to be able to pull one of these cards. It will be no easy task as they are only releasing 51 video cards of each player. One can only imagine what these cards will be fetching on e bay when people get their hands on them.


*Update- A Derrick Rose Absolute 10-11 Autograph just sold for $330 on ebay...

More on the first ever video trading cards...

As mentioned here a few days back, Panini is bringing the future of card collecting to the table very soon. I did not realize it was going to be this soon, though. In June, Panini will be releasing it's Totally Certified product, which will feature the first video cards. You will be able to find randomly inserted video cards of Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, John Wall, and new Panini signee Blake Griffin. I am going to have to start putting some of my allowance aside for the next two months. I imagine this will be one of Panini's higher priced items. If everything works out, these cards will be released just in time for the NBA finals. The playoffs start this weekend and I am glad to have this nerdy hobby to keep me busy during these games.